gonna try btc guild call me greedy, I want to see btc dust sprinkling often, the monthly here indicates more than luck is in play.

I think most regulars on slush have tried nearly every pool there is. Personally, BTC guild would be my third choice - it's nice that they NMC but they have pretty hefty fees - the pplns rate 'feels' ridiculously low and a small run of bad luck makes you think sod this. Ghashio would be my second choice but again the fees are quite high. Although I do like the website for ghash better than btc - for me, both of the big players offer a 'boring' mining experience. Alas, my main pool is here - where the luck runs high and low and fast and furious. I do miss the days when slush had 15% of the entire network though. 3% is too low and I've been hoping for a website refresh for a while now... Others have been waiting a lot longer than I...

gonna try btc guild call me greedy, I want to see btc dust sprinkling often, the monthly here indicates more than luck is in play.

I think most regulars on slush have tried nearly every pool there is. Personally, BTC guild would be my third choice - it's nice that they NMC but they have pretty hefty fees - the pplns rate 'feels' ridiculously low and a small run of bad luck makes you think sod this.

I like how you're mentioning hefty fees while mining on a pool with the same fee (and no merged mining).

gonna try btc guild call me greedy, I want to see btc dust sprinkling often, the monthly here indicates more than luck is in play.

I think most regulars on slush have tried nearly every pool there is. Personally, BTC guild would be my third choice - it's nice that they NMC but they have pretty hefty fees - the pplns rate 'feels' ridiculously low and a small run of bad luck makes you think sod this.

I like how you're mentioning hefty fees while mining on a pool with the same fee (and no merged mining).

Actually good point - I didn't notice when slush moved to 2% - when was that?

gonna try btc guild call me greedy, I want to see btc dust sprinkling often, the monthly here indicates more than luck is in play.

I think most regulars on slush have tried nearly every pool there is. Personally, BTC guild would be my third choice - it's nice that they NMC but they have pretty hefty fees - the pplns rate 'feels' ridiculously low and a small run of bad luck makes you think sod this.

I like how you're mentioning hefty fees while mining on a pool with the same fee (and no merged mining).

Actually good point - I didn't notice when slush moved to 2% - when was that?

Slush has been 2% since at least April...of 2011. I don't think it has ever been any different. When I first started mining before starting BTC Guild, the options were Deepbit (3% prop with paid orphans) and Slush (2% score without paid orphans), basically identical payments (orphan rate ~= 1% historically).

EDIT: He had a single day at 0% fee celebrating the pool's third anniversary. As far as I can tell, that is the only time in Slush's history that the fee was not 2%.

I've been mining for a month now with 3 usb erupters at around 1 Gh/sand I can recommend slush pool to everyone as this is is the most honestpool I found so far. "Luck" is not really a term I would use for describing anything that hasany computer generated numbers behind it , luck is when you throw a coin in the air and it falls on head or tails or when you roll a dice but slush is generally making sure to the best of his (theirs?) abilities to make sure thateveryone gets a fair share of that "generated" luck. I tried 50BTC BTCGuild , mining PPC etc etc and this is only pool not hidinganything from you as all other pools are hiding the blocks you found and confusing you with steady income that is less and less in time to the point of nonsense. Also , Bitcoins , in my opinion , ARE NOT MONEY , they are just a big pile ofnothing that people believe is worth 500 $ per unit at the time of this post. Nobody knows for sure where this goes from here but as I upgrade my gearslowly I will keep on using slush pool if it survives as it's the only honest deal out there I found , also , mining is not work and it doesn't take anything frommy regular computer experience. On slush pool at least I know everyone is looking for blocks and solving themand sharing the profit fairly according to their speed. Never forget , pool owner is THE OWNER OF BITCOINS MINED so trust that the pool owner is an honest guy(s) is the most important thing for me and thisis the only pool I trust so far.Way to go slush !

Since the recent brief site downtime for maintenance, I see that the average hash rate is now calculated over the last 60 minutes rather than the last ten rounds. This is a good change, giving far more useful information.